Resistor multi footprint vs. ultiboard footprint

[AdiZhol]

Hi,

I placed a chip-0603 resistor on mulstisim, and when I transferred the design to ultiboard, it was placed as a RESC1608X63.

After nodding with routing, I decided I needed a wider space between the resistor pads and that a RESC1608X84 footprint fits fine.

After changing the footprint in ultiboard, I back-annotated to multisim - but there multisim can't find the RESC...X84 footprint.

How should I link between the various types of RESC1608X** to the multisim IPC chip-0603 footprint?

Thanks,

Adi Z.

[Tayyab_R]

Hi AdiZhol,

The easiet way you can resolve this issue is click the footprint in Ultiboard anf go to Tools >> Database >> Add Selection to database. Save this footprint to your User Database. Open your Multisim design and go to the properties of the resistor and Edit Footprint. Select this footprint from your User Database. Now when you will forward or backward annotate, there should not be an issue.

Hope this helps.

[AdiZhol]

Hi,

Thanks, that's exactly what I did.

But why do ultiboard and ultisim have different footprint databases?

Thanks

[Tayyab_R · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Both softwares have the same database but there can be instances where a footprint in Ultiboard which is not assigned to any component in Multisim is not visible to Multisim. The way around is as I mentioned to save the component to a different database than the Master.

Hope this helps.